Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Research Reveals Wind Farm Power Generation Misestimates

Yet, new research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling by UNC Charlotte's Amanda S. Adams and Harvard University's David W. Keith, published Monday in the journal…

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Rethinking wind power

“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says Harvard applied physicist David Keith….

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Exploring Innovations in Solar Cell Research at Rutherford Lab

Working with the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the researchers are the…

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Simetal Merim: Boosting Efficiency in Steel Production

The newly developed Simetal Merim process from Siemens boasts an energy recovery level 20-30 percent higher than that achieved by conventional dedusting…

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UC Santa Barbara Unveils Innovative Solar Energy Harvesting Method

Though still in its infancy, the research promises to convert sunlight into energy using a process based on metals that are more robust than many of the…

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MIT Researchers Develop Quad HD TV Chip for Enhanced Viewing

It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity — and they now seem to be…

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Flexible, Flat, Transparent Imaging Device Transforms Technology

Digital cameras, medical scanners, and other imaging technologies have advanced considerably during the past decade. Continuing this pace of innovation, an…

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Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production

In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than…

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Researchers Create Semiconductor ‘Nano-Shish-Kebabs’ With Potential for 3-D Technologies

However, the nanowire and nanosheets are actually a single, three-dimensional structure consisting of a seamless series of germanium sulfide (GeS) crystals….

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Semiconductor interfaces: Big opportunities for tiny insulators

Advances in miniaturization have made electronic devices cheaper and more powerful, but these procedures also create new challenges for materials scientists….

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Soft Robots Get a Boost: Now They Can Jump!

They can already stand, walk, wriggle under obstacles, and change colors. Now researchers are adding a new skill to the soft robot arsenal: jumping.Using small…

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Low-carbon hybrid energy systems — China's future energy solutions

Coal dominated energy resource and consumption structure in China. This leads to the great challenges for China's future energy development along with both…

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New Approach to Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)

They are working together in the research project known as “Circuit Diagram-Based Design of MEMS for Applications in Optics and Robotics” – or MEMS2015 for…

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New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale Development

For 203 continuous hours, the Ohio State combustion unit produced heat from coal while capturing 99 percent of the carbon dioxide produced in the reaction.Liang-Shih Fan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of Ohio State’s Clean Coal Research Laboratory, pioneered the technology called Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL), which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere….

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Hydrothermal liquefaction — the most promising path to a sustainable bio-oil production

A new generation of the HTL process can convert all kinds of biomasses to crude bio-oil, which is sufficiently similar to fossil crude oil that a simple…

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Purification on the cheap

Increased natural gas production is seen as a crucial step away from the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants and toward U.S. energy independence. But…

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